Junkman

Great modelling. Still, if there is one thing I hate, it's steelies with dog dishes. No offense, just my taste.

Wodka.

You are a true artist!

Everything made before 1973 is superior in quality to anything made ever since. I'm sure I built later editions. If you happen to build a later release, you should play it safe and follow my advice.

Absolutely! I sometimes spend weeks to come up with spinning wheels when the kit manufacturer did not intend them to be turning. These are car models after all.

No, man. I want the biggest and oldest car you have.

I'm actually a mad scientist. I have a degree from the State of Confusion University. Currently I am working as the last living person that will ever touch you. But I'm setting up a car restoration/customization business and a custom bicycle business. That's why my model car projects are few and take long at this time. I also work for a friend's top fuel funnycar team: www.nhracing.com and race a Stockcar F1, which is similar to a modified in the US. Sorry, no website at the moment, but you can find info on Stockcar F1s here: http://www.brisca.com/

I have built several of them over the past few decades. It's actually quite straightforward. The only tip I'm really stressing to you is put bare metal foil between the tyres and rims - othersise the tyres 'eat' the plastic after a few years. You also have to 'stuff' the tyres with cotton wool, otherwise they collapse underthe weight of the model. And replace the plastic 'wire mesh' for the grille and headlamps with real wire guaze. Other than that, a nice and surprisingly easy build.

This is bl00dy nice, man.

I call this 'great!'. And I own a real R34 GT V-Spec Nismo G-Attack.

I just tried to register on Emodelcars. But when I tried to select my country from the dropdown list, it turned out to be wiped off this planet (not entirely undeserved I guess). There is neither an England, nor a Great Britain, no United Kingdom, nothing. However, such model car strongholds like Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Botswana, Tonga and Vanuato are listed (no offense to any modellers from these countries, please!).

Looking for fellow modellers in England. Where are the best model shows and swap meets?

Yes, they are really really dreadful. How do you mean the Gullwing being a lot easier to get right? I think in order to get it right, you need to scratchbuild each and every part new. OK, the bodyshell is halfways there, but the entire front is all wrong. Fit is atrocious to say the least. All the innards are just plain rubbish. I'd say melt it and inject the plastic into better molds. It's hard to believe that this rubbish was stoically reissued time and again over the past five decades in disturbingly regular intervals. If I was a kit manufacturer and had this kind of skeletons in the closet, I'd do everything I can to avoid them reentering people's memories. And that my fellow modellers is done by releasing newly tooled kits of them. Or don't you think nicely made Gullwings and 275s in 1/12 would be hot sellers? Hotter than a Neoplan bus, that's for sure. Wakey, wakey, Revell!

Yes, it's rubbish. And it was molded in red. Red plastic is made by the devil.

There is (was) a 1951 Buick LeSabre kit that is so bad that I forgot who the manufacturer was, which is the best thing you can do, trust me on this. Next are the Ideal Mercedes, Rolls and Pegaso kits, despite they look like Tamiya compared with the LeSabre. Also on my bad kit list: The General Lee Charger - for not resembling the General Lee Charger at all - just plain rubbish. All Japanese kits with a shallow interior to allow for 'motorizing' - but I love them in a strange way. The Fujimi Toyota Crown MS110 - for not being a MS110 Crown at all. It still builds into a nice fantasy car though. The Revell AG Trabant - their first effort in CAD designing a kit and it went all wrong. The Monogram '56 and '57 Chevies - they look more like a Trabant than Revell AG's Trabant kit. The AMT 50 Chevy PU snap kit - just plain dreadful. The annual '61-'63 Imperial kits - Oh. My. God. Too bad, because the real things are my favorite cars, what a pitty. The AMT new tool 58 Edsel and 60 Starliner kits - ok, actually quite good kits, but compared with the originals they are oddly soulless. Dunno, I just don't like them. Got a repop of the original Starliner in resin now and hope to find a leftover Holthaus '58 Edsel. All AMT '34 Ford kits. They just don't look like '34 Fords to me. The Arii Eldorados. Not all bad, but rather 1/20th scale. They just don't blend in next to the Monogram '59, which I don't find too good either but not bad enough to put it on this list. Every VW Beetle ever rendered as a kit, with the IMC one being the sole exception. OK, the Airfix one is good, but as usual with Airfix it is in the wrong scale. Why is it so difficult to get the proportions of this car right? The new realease Aoshima Mitsubishi Galant. Again, too bad, because I quite like the looks of the real car. Steer clear of this kit. Don't just avoid it - boycott it! It's too late for me, but all I'll ever do to it is build it into a banger racer.

How can you paint and foil a car within 8 hours?

Why don't you guys just use Revell semigloss paints? They also work great for simulating leather and vinyl. I even brush paint them.

Some people's modelling abilities are just so much superior to mine... Terrific build.

This is really nice. On question: Are these Revell kits the same bike in different guises, or is each one really a different kit?

It's a 413-440 RB Chrysler.

What would happen if I would pay you a grand?

OK, I can talk again: I wannit, I wannit, I wannit, I wannit, I wannit!

Want to put wires on it? I would trade you a set of Tamiya MKII wires for your steelies with caps.

I remember struggling with this kit when I was a kid - my mom gave it to me for X-mas. Your's looks nice. Very nice indeed, sir.

The colour is fantastic!